AD Consultant

Job Title:

AD Consultant

Job Description

Core Accountabilities:

• Standard Product Work Shops – Training.
• In-Depth Product Reviews - White Board (Chalk Talk) Sessions.
• Health Checks / Assessments.
• Product Upgrade / Migration Assessments.
• Standard Advisory request handling.

Required Experience:

• Key technical resource for the customer
• Focused on delivering proactive services such as education workshops, delivering assessments and providing expert guidance
• Join a highly motivated team of leading industry experts
• Visit customers to train them and share industry and development expertise
• Be part of a thriving developer community that's constantly looking for ways to improve our customers’ experience, software development goals and use of technology.
• Build strong customer relationships and ensure deliveries align with customer projects and milestones.
• Gain access to expertise and support from Microsoft’s consulting practice and product groups
• Continually learn and grow professionally
• Analyse problems
• Maintain, extend accreditations and certifications, assist in developing best practices for key technologies and products to support technical team readiness
• Demonstrate strong communication skills; ability to develop strategic ongoing customer relationships, gain trust and respect for Microsoft Premier. Engineers must also possess strong technical writing, presentation and training skills
Technical Skills
• Broad knowledge of on-premises Microsoft products with deep understanding of the following: Active Directory and AD Certificate Services
• Strong Active Directory troubleshooting skills and experience
• Experience in Active Directory Disaster Recovery
• AD CS related requirements:
o Experience in managing and maintaining multi-tier CA role, Enrolment policies, Certificate enrolment web service.
o Experience of how to deploy, backup, restore, migrate, and maintain AD CS.
o Knowledge of how to protect against weak cryptographic algorithms, migrate a CA key to a key storage provider, configure trusted root and disallowed certificates, use a policy module with the network device enrolment, and perform a delegated installation for an enterprise CA
o Working knowledge on PKI ancillary services (like NDES and OCSP)
o Certificate Services High Availability and sharing of storage for Active/Passive PKI deployment.
• Experience with ADFS and Azure AD(Entra ID) would be beneficial.
• 4+ years’ experience in systems development, network operations, software support, IT consulting
• Self-reliant and strong team player, working in a fast-paced environment where technology and customers' requirements can change regularly
• Understanding of Microsoft’s Modern IT Architecture and Strategy
• PowerShell\Scripting experience
• Azure, basic knowledge of:
     o IaaS platform
     o Governance
Other Skills
• Proven track record in successfully planning, deploying, operating, and optimizing on-premises environments
• Proven track record of building relationships with senior IT and business decision makers.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to explain complex topics in ways that can be understood by technical and business decision makers.

Preferred Characteristics:

• Min 10 years in product support.
• Excellent written, oral / presentation and technical writing skills.
• The ability to read/interpret the needs/wants of customer executives and leaders.
• Ability to tactfully handle and articulate customer critical issues and work in a high stress environment.
• Growth mindset demonstrated by self-directed learning in a rapidly changing environment.
• Advanced Microsoft certifications

Location:

India Bangalore - Divyashree

Language Requirements:

Time Type:

Full time

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